Impacting patient-centred outcomes in COPD: breathlessness and exercise tolerance
The physiological hallmark of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is expiratory flow limitation. However, it is the resultant air trapping and associated increases in lung volume (hyperinflation) that provide a mechanistic link between the physiological impairment and the characteristic sym...
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| Language: | English |
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European Respiratory Society
2006-12-01
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| Series: | European Respiratory Review |
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| Online Access: | http://err.ersjournals.com/cgi/content/full/15/99/37 |